Ditto! On more than one occasion I've had to run CyberCop Scanner in addition to Nessus just because the client or employer needed the warm fuzzy of a "commercial" product. Something as simple as having a "commercial support contract" available through TNS would go a long way, methinks. This would allow consultants and infosec pros to say that they are using Nessus, a commercially supported product.
Good luck to you on your venture! cheers, -ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Howlett Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:35 PM To: Renaud Deraison Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The future of Nessus [Re: What's up with Tenable Security?] Renaud, Thanks for the update and I personally wish you the best in your commercial endeavor. Certainly for all the hours and time youve put into Nessus you deserve to benefit from it somehow. My question is one that many other Nessus users may also have. As a consultant using Nessus as one of my primary tools, will your new company make available a "consultant' type license whereby a user could pay-by-the-drink so to speak. Ive tried to get some of the other perveyors of Scanner software to do this to no avail which is what led me to Nessus in the first place. Being a small consultancy who lives contract to contract, i probably would not be able to outlay thousand or tens of thousands of dollars to purchase your version outright. However, being able to license it on a case by base basis for projects would be highly attractive, especially as a supported product by yourself. I think the company that finally does this will grab a lion share of the smaller consultancies that need a robust vulnerabilty scanner for clients. Not to mention that it could end up creating full sales to the end customers (brokered through the consultancy of course). Thoughts? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Renaud Deraison Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The future of Nessus [Re: What's up with Tenable Security?] On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 09:16:09AM -0700, William Smith wrote: > > So what does this mean for the nessus community? Any chance that there > will be a "Nessus Pro" fork or something like that, like Tripwire and > Sendmail? Or does Tenable Security plan on following a Redhat model and > keeping everything free? I'm glad you're asking, I was about to announce that officially. As some of you have noticed, Ron Gula (the original author of the Dragon IDS) and myself founded Tenable Network Security (www.tenablesecurity.com). I'm really excited with TNS, and I sincerely think that the company will be seen by the Nessus community as the nice sponsor behind the free scanner. I saw what happened with a couple of free projects which went semi-commercial and the dismay of the associated communities, and I really want to avoid that. I've suffered from those, I won't inflict that to anyone. I'll shortly move to the US (and become a cow-boy), I hope I'll meet happy Nessus users over there, - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
